Fukuoka City in Japan has become the eighth city, after Yokohama, Maebashi, Chiba, Shizuoka, Tokyo, Tottori and Nagasaki, to recruit students from central Việt Nam to work and study in healthcare from April 2022, marking progress in human resources training cooperation between Japan and Việt Nam.

Typhoon Conson will enter the East Sea on Wednesday night and is forecast to have a complicated path.

HCM City residents who were given the Moderna vaccine as their first injection will be inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine as their second shot.

The current COVID-19 wave is leaving many locals and hospital staff in HCM City struggling, so expats in the city are providing a helping hand by making free meals for hospitals and organisations, as well as raising money and collecting essential goods for people in need.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has asked the Hà Nội People's Committee to have specific instructions, and promptly correct shortcomings in the issuance of travel permits

Representatives from Việt Nam’s Health Ministry and France’s Xenothera - a medical laboratory in Nantes - on Wednesday had an online meeting over their co-operation in phase-3 clinical trials and technological transfer to make XAV-19, a COVID-19 treatment.

Việt Nam must put an end to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in a bid to have the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” removed by the end of 2021, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính said at a virtual meeting on the issue on Tuesday.

The consumption of agricultural products and circulation of farm produce has improved in the southern region, according to Lê Thanh Tùng, the deputy director of the Department of Crop Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Many patients are becoming confused between food supplements and medicine after watching misleading advertisements, and giving up doctors’ prescriptions and making their conditions worse, doctors have said.